Jones Very Quotes

United States, Poet
August 28, 1813 – May, 8, 1880.

Jones Very (August 28, 1813 – May 8, 1880) was an American poet, essayist, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement. He was known as a scholar of William Shakespeare and many of his poems were Shakespearean sonnets. He was well-known and respected amongst the Transcendentalists, though he had a mental breakdown early in his career.

Also known as Essayist, Clergyman

From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

Jones Very
- Great
- Soul
- Enemy
Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

Jones Very
- Soul
- Feeling
- Question

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Jones Very
- World
- Hamlet
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Jones Very
- Life
- World
- Long
We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

Jones Very
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

Jones Very
- Why
- History
- Giving